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If Richard Branson wants to launch something called "Virgin Cruises" in South Florida, I'm on board. Branson thinks big. The multi-billionaire owns or has owned record, airline and mobile media companies. He helped put Mick Jagger, the Sex Pistols and Culture Club on the map. He is selling flights to space. He is even working on inventing a cheaper, better car fuel. So, I'm eager to see what Branson has up his sleave for ocean travel. Not much is known yet about what Virgin Cruises will offer, other than two new world-class cruise ships based out of the Fort Lauderdale-Miami area. But when Branson promises "to shake up the cruise industry," I'm...

The daughter of comedian Joan Rivers, hospitalized in serious condition after suffering cardiac arrest, said on Sunday the comedian's family members are "keeping our fingers crossed," according to a hospital statement.
Rivers, 81, has been...

Francisco Rojas' wife told 911 dispatchers her 49-year-old husband was "drunk and in the garage trying to pull his tooth out with a pair of pliers," reports Will Greenlee in his Off the Beat blog for TCPalm.com in Stuart.

Trading in old electronics for cash or credit to purchase news ones is good for your budget and Mother Earth. And as Charlie Sheen may say when it comes to Florida consumers and this trend: Winning!
A new info-graphic released by eBay, one of the most...

Authorities were called to Miller's Ale House in Jensen Beach after a customer there became unruly.
The manager at Miller's Ale House told the responding deputy that a woman, later identified as Catherine Elizabeth Klotz, of Leesville, South Carolina,...

Old juice: Tiger blood.Hot new juice: Monkey blood.Almost one year ago this month Charlie Sheen declared on the "Today" show that he had "tiger blood."Now a Naples man has gone ape over a new-fangled plasma.Last Friday in Naples,...

All those Charlie Sheen TV appearances paid off for "Saturday Night Live," which mercilessly skewered the "Two and a Half Men" star this weekend. Host Miley Cyrus good-naturedly spoofed her life and career. The Sheen-Cyrus combo...

Something had to give eventually with Charlie Sheen. It finally has.
CBS announced late Friday afternoon that Sheen has entered a rehab facility.
As a result, "Two and a Half Men" has been placed on production hiatus.
The network didn't...

Lester Holt's audience shot up by more than half a million viewers on his second week filling in at NBC's "Nightly News" for the suspended Brian Williams. Then again, his rivals fared just as well. NBC's newscast averaged 10.1 million viewers...

Charlie Harper lives — at least, he lived until the final moments of Thursday's series finale of "Two and a Half Men." If you don't want to know what happened next, stop reading now. A baby grand piano fell on the millionaire playboy as he...

UPDATED: On the night "Two and a Half Men" ended and a new "Odd Couple" started, "The Big Bang Theory" remained the most-watched program.
"Big Bang" averaged 17.5 million viewers for a poignant episode that saluted...

Charlie Sheen might be kind of a jerk, but after his very public meltdown, "Two and a Half Men" discovered it couldn't get by without him any better than it could live with him. So despite the hoopla that surrounded signing Ashton Kutcher, the...

Would he or wouldn’t he?Charlie Sheen would not return for the “Two and a Half Men” finale, but the CBS sitcom ridiculed him mercilessly. His off-screen antics inspired many cutting jokes as the series ended a 12-year run.
But the show went after...

BURBANK, Calif. CBS's long-running "Two and a Half Men" comes to an end with back-to-back episodes this week (9 p.m. Eastern, Thursday) and with it one of the oddest behind-the-scenes soap operas in TV history. In 2011, following years...

"Two and a Half Men," 9 p.m. Eastern, Thursday BURBANK, Calif. Jon Cryer has been through all the highs and lows that have been the journey of "Two and a Half Men." There have been the years when it dominated the...

This week the end comes for two CBS series, Donald Trump names the victor on "The Celebrity Apprentice," and ABC counts down 15 movies that changed America. The week's highlights:
"Two and a Half Men" wraps up a bawdy 12-year run at 9...

Actor Charlie Sheen stood up for embattled "NBC Nightly News" anchor Brian Williams on Wednesday with a lengthy open letter in which he criticized the network.
In the letter, the “Anger Management” star called Williams “a stone cold passion...

A jury has ruled against a District of Columbia police captain who claimed he was demoted in retaliation for contradicting the police chief. The civil jury ruled Wednesday that Capt. Hilton Burton's testimony to the D.C. Council wasn't protected by...